The Market Vaults is a Grade II listed building in the Stafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1951. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Market Vaults
- WRENN ID
- watchful-bronze-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stafford MP: Leigh Ingham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1951
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Market Vaults, 4, St Martin's Place, ST16 2LA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 922 232
- Coordinates
- 52.80688, -2.11674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Market Vaults is a public house built around 1800, with a mid-19th century addition on the left side. It is constructed of brick with a stucco addition and is designed in the Georgian style.
The building has three storeys and features an angled two-window range. The ground floor has a fascia above a plastered surface and a cornice at the top. The entrance, located at the right end, includes a doorcase with pilasters, an entablature, and an overlight above a half-glazed door. The ground floor windows are adorned with fluted pilasters, entablatures, and timber aprons, featuring two 16-pane sash windows and a 2:4:2-pane horned tripartite sash window on the right. The first floor has windows with flat arches above 16-pane sashes, while the second floor has similar windows, one with a 4/8-pane sash and the other blocked. The third floor has blocked windows, with a shuttered opening at the left end. The right return of the building includes a tripartite window on the ground floor, two 16-pane sashes on the first floor, two 4/8-pane sashes on the second floor, and two tripartite casements on the top floor. A sign displays chains, referencing the nearby Shire Hall's law courts.
The stucco addition on the left end features a rusticated ground floor and a cornice at the top. The ground floor has an entrance with a window in an opening with canted angles and a large rusticated flat arch, similar to the arch for the entrance on the left. The right side has a round-headed entrance with fluted pilasters, an entablature block, and an open pediment, with a fanlight featuring radial glazing bars above a six-flush-panel door. The upper floors have windows in architraves with 2:4:2-pane horned tripartite sashes, the first floor window having a moulded sill. The building also includes a large dormer and a cross-axial stack, while the rear features lateral stacks and low wings.
Local climate
The Market Vaults receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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